Decide on subdomain

[gaearon]

Should it be cn, zh, zh-cn, zh-hans, or something else?

[zhongdeming428]

I prefer cn as the subdomain,just like https://cn.bing.com/?mkt=zh-CN

[gaearon]

What if somebody later wants to start a Traditional Chinese translation?

[robertying]

Something like Wikipedia's:

• Simplified Chinese (Mainland) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/
• Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/
• Traditional Chinese (Macao) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-mo/
• Simplified Chinese (Malaysia) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-my/
• Simplified Chinese (Singapore) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-sg/
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/

Well, I don't think we can achieve all these variants for now. So using zh-cn for Simplified Chinese and zh-tw for Traditional Chinese with cn.reactjs.org seems conventional.

• Simplified Chinese https://cn.reactjs.org/zh-cn/
• Traditional Chinese https://cn.reactjs.org/zh-tw/

[QC-L]

I think it would be better to use cn.
Traditional Chinese translation use zh-hant or zh-tw.

[shaodahong]

yeh, better to use cn

[haimengzhang]

using zh-cn for simplified and zh-tw for traditional is more intuitive as I see it more often. second @robertying, but that being said, zh-cn is a child category of zh-hans, and zh-tw ofzh-hant, with the parent categories meaning Chinese written in simplified scripts and Chinese written in traditional scripts ( according to the long outdated IANA). The CSS3 language code only uses two options though:zh-hans and zh-hant .

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_language_codes.asp

[haimengzhang]

What if somebody later wants to start a Traditional Chinese translation?

@gaearon I think we can maintain both versions? zh-cn and zh-tw seem to be most economic choices

[gaearon]

The problem is we can’t have two languages on one domain. This would make the website more complex. So we need to choose two different subdomains.

[gaearon]

cc @chloewlin, any thoughts?

[QC-L]

I think it should be divided into two repos.
If together, it is not easy to synchronize with en repo.

[gaearon]

Maybe let’s go with cn for Simplified and tw for Traditional?

[chloewlin]

@gaearon I agree. I also prefer cn for Simplified and tw for Traditional for its clarity and simplicity.

[QC-L]

@gaearon @chloewlin
NoNoNo, use tw is not good. I think it should be used zh-tw.
Because it will be very dangerous

[shaodahong]

@QC-L i understand your worry, but weibo also use tw.weibo.com